i wish
Daddy why is your face rectangular
Just walked past a cafe table where both parents had their phones out & were intent on… something, something elsewhere. Meantime the year-old child they had produced in an offline moment gazed at one and then at the other, seeing their faces round the back of a screen. When I next passed the mother was rootling in her mum’s bag for something for the kid and Dad was holding both phones, like a smoker with two cigarettes.
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